Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamils

SRI LANKA TO RELEASE 136,000 TAMILS

All ethnic-minority Tamil detainees will be freed from government camps on December 1, a senior Sri Lankan official said today.

Some 300,000 war-displaced Tamils were forced into camps after fleeing the final months of the government’s decades-long war with the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended in May.